Comments Thread For: Hearn: After First Fury-Joshua Fight, WBO Title Will Have To Be Vacated

[joe strong]

So the WBO title will be vacated. Usyk/Joyce winner will become champion. Next in line will be the WBA mandatory which is the winner of Charr/Bryan in May. Do you think Fury or Joshua will waste their time fighting either or do you see them vacating the WBA? Maybe Fury/Joshua winner fights Usyk/Joyce winner to regain undisputed. Don King in the WBA HW title picture is always a concern. How will he screw things up? Pray Charr beats Bryan so the King issue goes away unless the WBA just make Bryan champion if the belt is vacated.

[Pigeons]

Because it won't be false. The winner of that fight will be the undisputed champ.

If your argument is that the winner will be undisputed anyway regardless of the belt then i agree but not everyone will see it that way so it makes sense just to have all four belts on the line for promotional purposes.

Shut up f**ggot. Fury is already undisputed. WBA IBF WBO Klitschko WBC Wilder.

So why are you still crying?

[Boxviewer]

"fast eddie" was told by arum to shut up

Obviously he doesn't take any order from Arum or anybody at Top Rank. I guess it's Arum who should shut up and sign the contract.

[mawoodhouse]

Doesn't matter if whoever the winner between Fury and Joshua is gives up the WBO belt, they will still be recognized as the WBO champ, the holder of that belt between Usyk and Joyce will only be recognized as a paper champ..as the belt was gifted.

[Boxviewer]

Seems like another example of "blame Hearn for everything". There are other people involved in this deal. Arum, Warren, Fury, AJ.

Maybe all parties wanted a rematch clause? It maximises their profits. People were criticizing Loma for not having a rematch clause, saying it was dumb. I doubt Fury or Joshua have to agree to a rematch clause if they don't want to.

Well said, that were my thoughts too.

[REDEEMER]

Which is why the second fight isn't necessary. Why does it have to be a two fight deal? What if it's a complete white washing? Rematches should be for really close fights or epic fights that the fans want to see again. Not just throw a ****ing rematch clause into every contract.

Once again proven you just are utterly clueless about boxing .

Neither camp would agree to just one fight they actually need two fights to make the split agreement of winner gets 60% in the rematch of such fighters claiming to be the A side .

Rematch clauses are actually the norm if managers are doing their part for their fighter and Loma found out the hard way .

I can’t believe for someone who claims to have boxed before is one of the most clueless posters on here all the time .

Fury was the one who actually confirmed it months ago . Don’t talk about the fight doe . Ha

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/sport/tyson-fury-anthony-joshua-spt-intl/index.html

[lion33lit]

Fury needs to give up the WBC belt because he refused/refuses to fight Wilder in the contractual agreed to 3rd fight. Hearn can divert and play the WBO focus all he wants - as though his greedy one sided view on things is all thats out there to really see....Fury is the undisputed heavyweight CHEATER model thats trying hard to quickly funnel in illegitimate funds.... Fury never truly earned the WBC belt, he flipped & flopped his way to the top.

[Ajvar]

Many disagreed with me that WBO should either strip belt now if rematch clause present or obligate Usyk fight immediately.
IBF is notorious against unifications (like not recognising true WBA champ recently as a champ) but had other Orgs be as principle as IBF we would have Boxing on the next high.
Usyk was WBO heavyweight mandatory for THREE fricking years already!

1. Usyk only fought 2 fights in Heavy and only 1 average guy. He doesn't deserve a shot.
Sorry, but that's how it works in boxing. You are a champ in lower division, you can go fight champ [WBO] higher if you want becoming mandatory. I say other Orgs should do the same.
If Heavyweights are so different due to weight dif then ***** DECREASE WEIGHT DIF between cruisers and heavies! [not the ****** way WBC tries though!]. One weight class can't defy rules for other classes.
2. That will stop Undisputed Heavy King Fight!
Emmm, just AJ fights Usyk and then AJ fights Fury. DONE! Fury can go fight another bartender as he almost always does.
AJ must fight Usyk - that is for 3 years already. Fans, STOP supporting DUCKS! I believed AJ beats Usyk EZ but he doesn't believe this, apparently.

[Castilo]

Many bittered Americans on here, Donkeytus Whiner had a great chance at becoming undisputed champion in 2018 but blew away the chance.

This I said because back then, Joshua was too raw, and depended only on his power nothing more. I even had the fight at 52—48 leaning towards wilder.

But the clown couldn't capitalize and now blames everyone alive for his misfortune.

[KP1]

People are only against this because it involves Joshua and Hearn.

If it was Fury vs Wilder for all the belts everybody would be onboard.

It’s actually pretty funny how much Hearn winds people up.